Here’s a short list of series that I want to collect sometime in the future. I may have them bound, or I may not. I’d dearly love for the publishers themselves to publish reprint volumes for these, but I’m not holding my breath:
Marvel
Battlestar Galactica 1-23 (yes, I know there’s a reprint series in progress)
Shogun Warriors 1-20
ROM 1-75 + 4 annuals
Micronauts 1-59 + 2 annuals + 1-20 New Voyages (collection complete)
Planet of the Apes 1-21
John Carter, Warlor of Mars 1-28 + 3 annuals
Logan’s Run 1-7 (collection complete)
2001: A Space Odyssey 1-10
Tarzan 1-28 + 3 annuals
DC
complete Warlord series (surely this will be Showcased or Archived?)
Captain Carrot, all appearances (a perfect Showcase candidate)
Actually, my local comic book shop is holding one of its annual back issue sales this weekend. I should swing by to see if they have any of these in stock.
2 responses so far ↓
1 John // Jul 3, 2006 at 05:44
I need some help in giving my comics collection a good home. I have somewhere around 500 comics of mixed lineage dating back through the 70s and 80s (although most are in the 90s). With titles like Star Trek, Hellblazer, Spiderman, Batman, The Tick, and TMNT it’s a pretty diverse bunch. I’ve been considering putting them up on eBay a few at a time. But I’m leary of the market there. Seems to be mostly dealers trying to get bargain prices for resell. What’s your recommendation for giving my collection a good home, while recouping most of my investment in it. I searched your blog, but couldn’t find an answer to this anywhere.
2 Michael Rawdon // Jul 3, 2006 at 12:11
Supposedly there’s some problem with creator compensation for reprints of DC material from the late 1970s, which makes it difficult to see whether Warlord (among others) will be collected.
The only one of those comics I have much interest in is Micronauts, which I read religiously as a kid. The best issues are the original Michael Golden run, and the issues illustrated by Pat Broderick. The Gil Kane and Butch Guice issues are okay, although frankly by that point the series had gotten very dark and wasn’t as much fun. The New Voyages is a different beast altogether, inasmuch as Bill Mantlo stepped down as writer and was replaced by Peter B. Gillis. The Kelley Jones art is nifty, though.
IIRC, one issue of 2001 has the first appearance of Machine Man, and may be tricky to pick up.
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